Building robustness and agility into continuous development with SATO
SATO is a leading housing provider committed to providing carefree living via sustainable housing and maintenance practices, with continuous digital service development and data management at its core. During several years of collaboration, Vuono Group has helped SATO to enable fast-paced service development processes without sacrificing quality.
Creating a competitive edge in the Finnish housing market requires continuous service innovation and swift go-to-market delivery. Vuono Group business engineers have helped SATO with the following:
Fast development with short release cycles of new business-driven features in key customer-facing portals — without sacrificing robustness or quality
Maintaining a resilient production environment, including several internal services and 3rd party service dependencies
Visibility to software performance and testability
Improving existing codebases to ensure maintainability, without slowing down the development of new capabilities
We Helped By:
Mapping and reassessing processes, bottlenecks and risk scenarios in the system architecture, while addressing any issues as necessary
Improving and automating development-to-testing processes that allow business operations to experiment with and review new service features without blocking other development
Implementing holistic and maintainable test automation – covering intra- and interrelations of the modular system architecture – to complement and support manual testing
Implementing practices and tooling for increased visibility over release progress and scheduling
Establishing monitoring tools and practices to detect and address unexpected issues in production, in order to ensure service quality
Developing and delivering new features in close collaboration with business operations, in order to meet their evolving needs
After over two years of collaboration (and counting), the release cycle of new features has shortened, and the manageability, resilience, and QA practices of the digital service ecosystem have improved. As a result, the team’s confidence in the robustness of the system has increased significantly.
Vuono Group continues to support SATO with digital service development.
“Collaborating with Vuono Group has been transformative for our digital service capabilities. Their proactive approach to addressing system architecture, streamlining development processes, and implementing comprehensive testing solutions has empowered us to stay ahead in a competitive market. Thanks to their support, our release cycles have shortened, and our digital service ecosystem has become more resilient.”
About SATO
SATO is one of Finland's leading housing providers with over 80 years of experience in the Finnish housing market. They have over 25 000 apartments and nearly 43 000 residents in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Tampere, and Turku. SATO builds approximately 1000 homes per year, and the goal is to have the residents live a carefree life that feels like their own.